AIBU to want spending cuts rather than more tax rises?

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The foundations are being laid for more tax rises in the October Budget.

https://www.ft.com/content/6d43b599-3d7c-471c-88c2-0f056475a840?syn-25a6b1a6=1

AIBU to ask for savings in spending to help balance the budget rather than more taxes.

With welfare spending at nearly £1bn each day, when is enough, enough?

Don’t your children vote? Mine do.

Lots of well paid people at Amazon. Lots of well paid software engineers. Amazon offers so many well paid corporate careers. What are you on about? I've met lots of product managers there and they all are fine.

Elon Musk has what - Tesla and spacex. All of them get paid well. The SpaceX IPO made so many blue collar workers midnight millionaires. And the innovation from all these companies benefit society.

The reply that says it’s a good thing shows people will back anything at all.

'Jobs for the English', you mean?

Immigration shouldn't all be about GDP go up. We need to clearly look at the social side and integration issues.

Do you have any dc who might want to work at some point?

Or know anyone looking for a job? Did you even see the NEET figures.

You really think the people you're talking about who benefited are in the majority? You're either reading the available data very selectively to suit your agenda, or not bothering to read it at all.

Pls no more tax rises which make everyone poorer. Do something to stimulate growth- like reducing the tax burden slightly so people spend and invest

Blue collar working class workers with shares saw massive gains due to the ipo. Spacex employees who had these shares benefitted so much

Expecting a country's workers to compete for local jobs with the entire globe is some hardline wage-suppression hypercapitalism - a bit far even for me, but you do you.

No I don't work in the public sector. Just think Hunt's 4% cut in NI was foolish right before the election. Similarly, think cutting the CGT tax free threshold to a miserly £3k wrong, as well as increasing the rate to 25%.

You choose to live in SE, and although I accept your point about not being able to move in the current economic climate, you and elderly parents couldn't have moved in past 10-20 years??

Let me guess, private school is also a necessity right?

When a poster is adamant a vape shop can’t find local staff but must use a visa then yeh we’re going to see NEET figures rise.

Madness. Young adults do actually need to work.

I stopped buying from Amazon when information about how staff are treated started coming to light. I don't drive a Tesla or use X. HTH.

Most of it is.

25% fewer civil servants but in person assessments for benefit claimants. Nothing wrong with proper, in person assessments in principle, but who exactly will do the in person assessments then?

Nutshell.

Which parts of that demographic, specifically, do you consider to be 'NOT poor'?

We have Amazon prime and order numerous goods we want off it.

Although mumsnet relies on AWS, ie Amazon

No wonder. We have fuck all left after the Tories.

Wow! I didn't dig that deep, but that's impressive!

so it's over 3k per month for 2 adults and 2 kids after

• housing
• childcare
• utilities

So basically for food, cloths, transport and entertainment????

Do we have any families not in poverty according to this definition? that's insane

Genuine question, what do you believe those needs to be?

Excellent.

Lack of education and they say private schools are better for some reason.

Why does anyone have a "genuine right" to live off someone else's money?